James Walter Wall

James Walter Wall (26 May 1820-9 June 1872) was a US Senator from New Jersey (D) from 14 January to 3 March 1863, succeeding Richard Stockton Field and preceding William Wright.

Biography
James Walter Wall was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1820, and he was tutored privately in Flushing, Queens before being admitted to the bar in 1841. He served as a bankruptcy commissioner in Trenton, and he became Mayor of Burlington in 1850. He supported Democratic presidential nominee John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 presidential election, and he was appointed to the US Senate in 1863 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Renshaw Thomson. He moved to Elizabeth in 1869, and he died there in 1872 at the age of 59.